Psy performing hit song 'Gangnam Style'.
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The hit Korean pop song ‘Gangnam Style’ has had so many views that it has exceeded YouTube’s hit counter and forced Google to upgrade its counter software coding. When Psy’s hit song reached 2,147,483,647 views, it far exceeded the original coding, which was only set to 2 billion views. After the upgrade, a single video can now potentially register up to 9 quintillion views, or 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. Read more: wsj.com

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